Sentences with phrase «films of a personal nature»

«I wanted to help new people develop their skills so that films of a personal nature would get into the marketplace.»

Not exact matches

The film's performers are all - around excellent (McShane provides an anchor of subtlety to some of the shrill histrionics, and Winstone exudes potent personal angst from simple offhanded comments like ordering calamari), but it's Kingsley's menacing and humorous performance, a brutal force of near poetic nature, that reveals new layers with each viewing of the film.

Stories We Tell explores the elusive nature of truth and memory, but at its core is a deeply personal film about how our narratives shape and define us as individuals and families, all interconnecting to paint a profound, funny and poignant picture of the larger human story.

Filmed with exceptional care and remarkable photographic ingenuity, no other nature documentary is as personal and as close - up as this one to the peculiarities of birds.

This last one about the damage ostensibly wrought by Trank's dog captures the vindictive, weirdly personal nature of the coverage of the film.

BD: Your films seem to be of a very personal nature, in that your lead protagonists are unfailingly software salesmen.

Awash in all the visual and aural possibilities of filmed entertainment, David Lynch's 18 - episode sequel to his 1990s TV series was the ultimate, uncompromising display of personal obsession and totally tuned - in to the dream nature of the whole filmic endeavor.

You've often mentioned Brooks and also Cameron Crowe as formative influences, but I tend to think of your films, and This Is 40 in particular, as having even more in common with the work of Paul Mazursky and Blake Edwards — especially Edwards films like S.O.B. and That's Life — in their improvisational looseness, their unabashedly personal nature, and the generosity to actors.

The film manages to both examine the nature of desire through personal and revealing interviews and still end with a cum - shot.

While this film has some bracingly strong observations on the nature of long - term professional and personal relationships, it also feels somewhat theatrical in the way its story develops.

Among other anecdata, the director explains how working on location restricts the mobility of the camera, points out the film's trickiest special - effects work, and reveals his own personal beliefs about the nature of life after death.

After surviving a night in the woods for an experiential screening (event recap, review) of Trey Edward Shults» sophomore feature It Comes at Night, we sat down with him to discuss the very personal nature of the film, his approach to making such an atypical horror film, the very interesting backstory behind the house featured in the film, and much more.

Worse, Vanderbilt seems to be referring to author Thomas Hardy in the naming of Travolta's character (and Barbarino's recent sour grapes concerning his passing over Chicago doesn't say all that much for the film he was shooting instead), pushing the connection by tying Hardy's hallmarks of personal archetype and use of forces of nature as allegory into what is essentially a stupid rip - off of any stupid David Mamet film.

Spike Jonze's return to the feature director's chair (and first time bringing a script he wrote entirely by himself with him) after a four year break is a thoroughly layered and personal film that is at times about the awkward nature of new relationships after a break up (and how we cope with that crushing in - between time), and at times about how technology shapes our modern world, and at times about how we demonstrate and understand love and relationships changes with both time and technology.

Based on a D. H. Lawrence novel of living free in a changing Britain and how that plays out sexually in such a suppressed society, we start with two good friends (Glenda Jackson and Jennie Lindon), a rougher contact in high society (Oliver Reed) and more open, freewheeling friend (Alan Bates) examining the slowly blooming new freedoms, their connection to nature, each other and what that portends for the future in this lush, warm, personal film that holds up extremely well today and has some of the best work of all involved.

I began making films [out of] a deep need... to come to terms with my family's history and suffering, to make sense of the past and to explore my own personal terrors, both mental and spiritual, and to examine the destructive nature of Catholicism.

The film is so vulnerable when it comes to the evolving nature of Simonischek and Hüller's characters that it's impossible not to feel strong personal connections woven into their design.

This personal and moving short film revolves around the themes of cultural alienation, abuse and the contrast between mythological greenlandic nature and western urban culture.

Immediately, the personal nature of this film becomes apparent to Besson, who doesn't pass this along to one of his factory workers, but keeps it for himself.

Much like how the Avengers curiously never show up to help each other in their respective solo movies, the attempt to explain Brian's absence in this film (especially considering the personal nature of the main plot) only serves to open old wounds.

The piece reveals the personal nature of the film (shot at Shanley's first grade, where the real Sr..

Gillian Wearing's powerful and provocative film, video and photographic works question the nature and construction of personal identity.

Both the film and exhibition reflect on the artist's journey into the creative process and very nature of collage, a medium that for Letscher represents both a personal aesthetic, and a language with which to find structure, beauty and serenity within chaos.

The film serves as a thoughtful meditation on the deeply personal and affective nature of all perception.

The title of this exhibition, On Any Sunday, references the personal nature of the words that Abbott includes in his text - based paintings, and is the title of a mid-1970s documentary film on motorcycle culture that Abbott's father had a cameo role in.

The down side is that it appears this exposure to nature and conservation via film bears very little correlation with a more complex and deep understanding of the natural world and its protection, or actions relation to personal lifestyle and responsibility.